AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +38%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Dec 2011

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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